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FM HONG KONG
TO DESKBY 18090OZ FCO TELNO 2551
OF 180755Z NOVEMBER 85
INFO DESKBY 18093OZ PEKING
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HKK 027/16
RECEIVED IN REGISTRY
1.9 NOV 1985
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HONG KONG AGREEMENT: VISITS TO HONG KONG BY CHINESE LEADERS
1. SOME TIME AGO SIR Y K PAO RAISED WITH ME THE QUESTION OF CHINESE LEADERS VISITING HONG KONG. I TOLD HIM THAT THEY WOULD ALWAYS BE WELCOME HERE AND THAT WE COULD ARRANGE FOR THEM TO SEE WHATEVER THEY WISHED AND TO MEET LEADING PERSONALITIES.
2. HE TOLD ME AT LUNCH TODAY THAT ON HIS RECENT VISIT TO PEKING STATE COUNCILLOR JI PENGFE, HEAD OF THE HONG KONG AND MACAU AFFAIRS OFFICE IN THE STATE COUNCIL, HAD TOLD HIM THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO VISIT HONG KONG EARLY IN DECEMBER BUT WOULD NEED AN INVITATION FROM ME. SURPRISINGLY JI PENGFEI HAS NEVER BEEN TO HONG KONG.
3. THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT A VISIT OF THIS KIND WOULD BE VERY VALUABLE NOT ONLY FOR THE EDUCATION OF JI HIMSELF, BUT BECAUSE AS SIR Y K POINTED OUT, IT WOULD OPEN THE WAY TO VISITS BY OTHER SECOND LEVEL BUT IMPORTANT VISITORS IN THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT (E.G. SOME OF THE VICE PREMIERS). SIR Y K AGREED THAT. IN ORDER NOT TO PUT MR XU JIATUN'S NOSE OUT OF JOINT I SHOULD SEND THE INVITATION THROUGH MR XU AS DIRECTOR OF NCNA.
4. I SHALL INFORM EXCO OF THIS DEVELOPMENT AT ITS MEETING TOMORROW MORNING AND SUBJECT TO THEIR RAISING NO DIFFICULTY (1 HAVE NO REASON TO BELIEVE THAT THEY WILL) THE POLITICAL ADVISER WILL GIVE JI SHAOXIANG OF THE NCNA AN ADVANCE COPY OF THE INVITATION I WOULD PROPOSE TO SEND, AT A LUNCH WHICH HAS ALREADY BEEN ARRANGED FOR TOMORROW. I WOULD THEN SEND THE INVITATION A DAY OR TWO LATER. GRATEFUL FOR ANY COMMENTS YOU OR HM AMBASSADOR IN PEKING MAY HAVE DESKBY 190030Z. THE DRAFT TEXT OF THE PROPOSED INVITATION I WOULD SEND IS IN MY IFT.
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HONG KONG AGREEMENT
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HD/HKD HD/FED
HD/PLANNING STAFF HD/PUSD
DEP HD/PUSD
RES (MR WALKER)
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PS/MR RENTON PS/PUS
BIR W HARDING
MR WILSON
SIR J FREELAND
MR J CROWLEY PUSD
COPIES TO: (VIA ADR)
MR ROBERTS NEWS DEPT MR FIFOOT LEGAL ADVS MR MARTIN ASST STAFF
CABINET OFFICE
MR MALLABY CABINET OFFICE MR DRC CHRISTOPHER
CABINET OFFICE SIR P CRADDOCK NO 10 DOWNING ST. MR WOOD LEGAL ADVISERS
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